The alleged leader of a plot to bomb two Bronx synagogues pretended to be a “bloodthirsty bigot” only to scarf down free meals and collect cash offered by a government informant, defense lawyers claimed yesterday.

James Cromitie never made any anti-Semitic or anti-American remarks during thousands of secretly recorded conversations with people other than “the FBI’s agent provocateur,” and the feds couldn’t find any hate literature in his home, according to papers filed in White Plains federal court.

Lawyers for co-defendant Onta Williams also said investigators “must have known that Cromitie’s tales about attacking police stations and cars with gas bombs hurled from flare guns were ludicrous fantasies designed only to impress” the informant, Shaheed Hussain.